The Nomad Monk

To start, I used some reference on pinterest of people doing parkour and found a person in the middle of a kneeling stance during a sprint. Once I decided to use that image, I started to work on the sketch starting from simple shapes to more detail in the muscles. Then I moved into adding clothing, accesories, and weapons. When I was finished with that, I added bolder outlines with varying widths to keep an interesting flow to the lineart. After I took my time with that, I added flat colors, used the lasso and gradient tool for shading, and finished up with brushing and line color. - I understand this character doesn't display the most movement, but the lesson really helped out in teaching me how to present the figure in interesting ways. Thanks :)